The Dead Bones

The Dead Bones
First appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004)
Latest appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) (2024)
Species	Dull Bones

“We're gonna take the skin off YOUR bones!”

—The Dead Bones, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

The Dead Bones, also known as The Bone-Banging Rockers, is a team of three Dull Bones fighters, that fight in the Glitz Pit in the game Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. These fighters were defeated by Mario (known as the Great Gonzales) and his partners. The Dead Bones are ranked 16th in the Glitz Pit.

Statistics

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door enemy
Dull Bones
	Max HP	1	Attack	2	Defense	1
	Location(s)	Hooktail Castle, Glitz Pit, Palace of Shadow, Pit of 100 Trials (Levels 1, 4-6, 9)	Role	Support, common	Level	9
	Sleep?	0%	Dizzy?	50%	Confuse?	50%
	Tiny?	100%	Stop?	95%	Soft?	95%
	Burn?	100%	Freeze?	90%	Fright?	10%
	Gale Force?	90%	KO?	50%	Moves	Bone Throw (2), Build (summons Dull Bones)
	Exp. points	0	Coins	1	Items	Dried Shroom (drop only), Fire Flower, Fright Mask (drop only), Mushroom, POW Block (drop only)
Tattle Log #: 20	Log	A Koopa Troopa that became a skeleton. It throws bones to attack and builds buddies to help it fight.
	Tattle	That's a Dull Bones. Sort of a skeleton thing. It was a Koopa Troopa...once. Max HP is 1, Attack is 2, and Defense is 1. These creeps throw bones to attack. Oh, and they build reinforcements, too! Attacks that can strike multiple Dull Bones at once are the most effective.

Names in other languages

The Dead Bones

Language	Name	Meaning	Note(s)	Ref.
Japanese	ボーン・ワイルダース Bōn Wairudāsu	Bone Wilders		[?]
Chinese	狂野骨骸 Kuáng yě Gǔhái	Wild Bones		[?]
Dutch	De Knokenkrakers	The Bone Crackers		[?]
French	Décharnés	Fleshless		[?]
German	Knochenwerfer	Bone Throwers		[?]
Italian	Le Carcasse Indomite	The Untamed Carcasses		[?]
Korean	본 와일더즈 Bon Waildeojeu	Bone Wilders		[?]
Spanish	Los Tres Mosqueletos	Portmanteau of Los tres mosqueteros (The Three Musketeers) and esqueletos ("skeletons")		[?]

The Bone-Banging Rockers

Language	Name	Meaning	Note(s)	Ref.
Japanese	ホネホネ・ロッケンロール Honehone Rokkenrōru	Bony Rock 'n' Roll		[?]
Chinese (Simplified)	疯狅骨头摇滚乐 Fēng Kuáng Gǔtou Yáogǔnyuè	Crazy Bone Rock 'n' Roll		[?]
Chinese (Traditional)	瘋狅骨頭搖滾樂 Fēng Kuáng Gǔtou Yáogǔnyuè	Crazy Bone Rock 'n' Roll		[?]
Dutch	De Botte Uitblinkers	The Rude Talents ("Bot" meaning both bone, and rude)		[?]
French	Outretombés	From beyond the grave		[?]
German	Die knarzenden Knochen	The creaking Bones		[?]
Italian	Gli scheletri nell'armadio	The skeletons in the closet		[?]
Korean	뼈다귀 로큰롤 Ppyeodagwi Rokeunnol	Bony Rock 'n' Roll		[?]
Spanish	Uno para todos y todos para uno	One for all and all for one		[?]